We spend more time with our coworkers than with most of our actual relatives, so it’s no surprise that real bonds can form at work. But sometimes those bonds go way beyond sharing lunch or covering someone’s shift. The people in these stories discovered that a kind colleague can become the family you never expected to find.
From secret acts of generosity to support during the hardest moments, these 12 stories show what happens when kindness meets the workplace.
- I always made coffee for the whole office, not just myself. No one ever thanked me or offered to take over. Then I got the flu and was out for a week.
When I came back, there was a brand new coffee machine on my desk with a bow. The note said it was from everyone, and they’d realized how much they missed my coffee and my presence. Someone had taken over the morning coffee routine permanently.
- I spent months mentoring the new intern everyone ignored.
I answered her questions, included her in meetings, defended her ideas. She got hired full-time and I got passed over for a promotion. I was bitter.
Then I found out she had gone to HR and told them everything I’d done for her. She said if anyone deserved to move up, it was me. I got the promotion two weeks later.
- I taught the older guy in accounting how to use Excel.
Everyone else made fun of him behind his back. I spent my lunch breaks with him for weeks. He retired a year later without much fanfare.
Then I got a letter from him. He’d left me his vintage watch in his will.What happened next changed everything… FULL STORY on the next page.
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